Hum 214 - Text and Tradition: Cross-Currents I

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Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course revisits the cultural and intellectual terrain of Classical to Renaissance Literature (Hum 201) and Early Political Thought (Hum 203), purposefully mixing a different set of texts of very different kinds. We delve closely into how works belonging to the same cultural moment but different genres can reflect upon one another, and we address how works issuing from different periods can speak to one another. Along the way we work on refining our talents as close readers and careful writers, and we think carefully about the critic's role in creating canons and inventing intertextual dialogues. Authors studied include Aristophanes, Euripides, Plato, Seneca, Boethius, Dante, and Petrarch.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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